Corrosion Behavior of Selective Laser Melted Ti-6Al-4V in 0.1 mol/L NaOH Solution

Abstract

In this work, the corrosion behavior of a Ti-6Al-4V alloy prepared using selective laser melting (SLM) in a 0.1 mol/L NaOH solution was studied by means of corrosion electrochemical testing, X-ray diffraction analysis and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and its corrosion process was compared with the commercially forged Ti-6Al-4V alloy. The results show that the corrosion resistance of the commercially forged Ti-6Al-4V alloy was higher than the SLMed Ti-6Al-4V alloy, which is closely correlated with the presence of more active spots on the alloy surface and more defects in the passive films.